Find out what is behind an obsessive craving for certain tastes and foods

The default assumption is that we only eat because of hunger. However, hand on heart, how often that feeling leads us to the refrigerator or dining table?

Raw foodists are confronted with this question face to face after six months or a year when the famine, in the form as we used to describe it, cease to feel at all!

And then it becomes clearly visible that the kitchen beckons us many years of ritual habit, emptiness of soul, boredom, laziness, fear of change or unwillingness to work on themselves – in General anything but hunger.





Therefore, knowing the reasons for his obsessive cravings for certain tastes and foods, it is possible to identify quite specific problems and the shadow qualities of character, to realize the effect of the neglected children's facilities or capricious momentary emotions. And then visapro desire to satiety to eat a cream cake will result, likely a natural reaction to a catastrophic shortage of love and tenderness...

Sweet not accidentally associated with pleasure (especially if parents used sweets as a reward). Pleasure quickly achievable, guaranteed, but unfortunately short-lived. Excessive need for sweets gives people anxious, lonely, misunderstood and ... proud. Because it is much easier to eat extra chocolate cake than to admit, even to himself, the lack of warmth, lack of love and affection. Besides, you know, to be happy in love, you need to be able to love and care for yourself.

Excessive fascination with fat, i.e. the most nutritious and satisfying food in a disproportionate energy costs – protection from danger and instability of the outside world, "life vest" for people in need in the inner and outer comfort, protection and reliable warranties.

In some cases, excessive consumption of fat may be due to strong feelings of guilt, experienced in childhood, is expressed in unconscious self-loathing and self-destruction.





Love for dairy products and creamy dessert is based on the need for care and comfort. On an unconscious level, the milk is absolute security, peace and serenity of early childhood. So ice cream, yogurt, or cheese are often desirable, when we feel anxiety, uncertainty, embarrassment or guilt. In addition, the sugar contained in cream desserts, transient increases energy and mood.

The desire for something to eat often arises as a misunderstanding of the situation and emotional disorders. Diligently moving his jaws, we help ourselves to cope with stress, to "chew up" offense and... to consider a response. Often crunchy foods are quite nutritious (nuts, crackers), and therefore endowed with more "masking" function for such feelings as loneliness, dissatisfaction and emptiness.

There is such a gradation, where the demand for solid products says about the "hunger of the mind", and soft – Oh "hunger of the heart." Crispy food prefer overly demanding to his personality, whereas people with insufficiently strong inner core often refuse one in favor of pale soft foods (purees, mousses, etc.).





In fact, chocolate is recognized as a "panacea" from all sorts of emotional wounds and disappointments – so seductive precisely because of the sum of its components: it is sweet and fatty and creamy and sometimes crunchy with pepper!

The passion for hot sauces and spices indicates a hidden desire to rule or to experience intense dramatic emotions. Using sharp, we try to paint too predictable and monotonous life, compensate for the lack of diversity and the need for new impressions.

On the soul level, this attraction demonstrates a low self esteem and lack of confidence, requiring from us the ability to negotiate, to find compromises, to learn to be on an equal footing with others, to appreciate every day and moment of my life as unique and unrepeatable moment. Habit spices and irritating taste recipes, seasonings typical of people expansive and unrestrained, supporting in this way the tone, the "right" degree of passion and a wide range of emotions.

Several similar state, only with a more pronounced side-force, "generate", by the way, caffeinated beverages and low-alcohol beverages. Such means prefer to tone up (or undermine) their nervous system people who are in constant mental stress, can not ignore the problems, to take responsibility, often still living and not your life.

The need for bitter diagnose a tendency to quarrels, aggression, the desire to destroy and argue. Exit from this state in the realization of the causal nature of events, knowledge of the law of unity and struggle of opposites, the ability to rise above everyday situations and see the picture of life as a whole.





Salt in small use improves determination and self confidence. In continuous mode, to the salt products are particularly attached to those who find it difficult to accept someone else's point of view. Such people always try to have the last word and hard to tolerate a situation when something goes wrong, as, in their opinion, should happen.

Love to the acidic often expresses a hidden or conspicuous pessimism, resentment, no true joy in life and faith in a brighter future. In its extreme form, this is what we call a "closed heart." Accordingly, work is required on the level of the soul and spirituality.

 

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The so-called complex carbohydrates like bread, rice, flour and pasta are particularly attractive in moments of imaginary or real dangers. It is believed that a chain reaction in the brain that triggers the lock of the consequences of pain or fear, stimulates the production of substances that "commands" us to store energy for the future.

 





And because modern dangers are usually reversible-seeming nature, the reserves prove to be redundant and materialists in the form of fat. In addition, pastries are often eaten by those who are in dire need of praise and approval of loved ones. published

 

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

Source: rawstyle.ru/2014/03/02/pochemu-my-edim-eto/

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